Surgery
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Jackson notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/196
Scope and Contents
Alexander Jackson’s notes, 26 January through 27 February 1824, from lectures in Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Includes occasional diagrams and subject index. Lecturers include: Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine, John Redman Coxe on materia medica, William Gibson on surgery, and William P. Dewees and Thomas C. James on midwifery. Includes occasional notes on Robert Hare on chemistry and Philip Syng Physick on anatomy.
Dates:
1824
Benjamin Bird notes on lectures from the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/246
Scope and Contents
B. L. Bird’s notes on lectures at University of Maryland School of Medicine, 1835-1836. Lecturers are: Robley Dunglison on therapeutics; Eli Geddings on physiology; Nathaniel Potter on practice of medicine; and N. R. Smith on surgery, particularly gunshot wounds. Includes recipes.
Dates:
1835 - 1836
Christian C. Vedder notes on lectures at Albany Medical College
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/181
Scope and Contents
Student notes taken by C. C. Vedder on lectures at Albany Medical College, 181. Lecturers are: James H. Armsby on surgery John M. Bigelow on materia medica H. R. Haskins on anatomy John . Lansing on physiology James McNaughton on the theory and practice of medicine Maurice Perkins on chemistry William P. Seymour on obstetrics and Albert Vanderveer on microscopical anatomy. Notes on clinical cases included.
Dates:
1871
E. A. Santee lecture notes from Jefferson Medical College
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/223-03
Scope and Contents
Volume of student notes, 1863-1864, taken by E. A. Santee at Jefferson Medical College on, primarily, lectures of Samuel Henry Dickson on practice of medicine; Robley Dunglison on physiology; Samuel D. Gross on surgery and gunshot wounds; and Ellerslie Wallace on obstetrics. Includes notes on medical and surgical clinics of D. Hayes Agnew and J. L. Ludlow at Philadelphia General Hospital.
Dates:
1863 - 1864
Henry Richard Smith medical notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/248
Scope and Contents
Notes on lectures of Dr. [James] Blundell on midwifery, 1835, from Guy’s Hospital; examination questions on surgery; notes on symptoms and treatment of common ailments; and recipes. Several bills and recipes, some dated as late as 1884, laid in.
Dates:
1835 - 1884
J. W. Brooks notes on the lectures of Henry Cline
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/179
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by J. W. Brooks on lectures, numbered 1-9 on surgery and 1-2 on bandaging, delivered by Henry Cline, possibly at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, circa 1780. Subjects include sutures and surgical procedures for tumors of breast and hernias.
Dates:
circa 1780
Jacob Price notes on the lectures of Thomas D. Mütter
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/081
Scope and Contents
Price’s notes are interleaved with Thomas D. Mütter’s Syllabus of the course of lectures on principles and
practice of surgery (Philadelphia, 1847) and expand on printed text. Notes occur in chronological order
from 23 October 1848 through 22 February 1849 and consider inflammation, wounds, diseases of bones and
joints, abdominal wounds, syphilis, and amputation. There are also a few pages of Price’s review notes,
dated February [1849?].
Dates:
1847 - 1894
James Oliver ledger and notes on lectures from Rutgers Medical College
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/286
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by James Oliver, 1829, on lectures at Rutgers Medical College. Includes notes on David Hosack on institutes and practice of medicine, William MacNeven on materia medica, and Valentine Mott on surgery. Also includes ledger of Ulster Co., N.Y., farm accounts, 1853-1861.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1829 - 1861; Majority of material found within 1861
James Snow medical notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/245
Scope and Contents
Contains James R. Snow’s prescriptions and recipes for common ailments and notes on lectures of Austin Flint on practice of medicine and Frank Hastings Hamilton on surgery from the Medical Dept. of University of Buffalo, circa 1848.
Dates:
circa 1848
J.H. Huddleston lecture notes
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/044
Scope and Contents
Volume of lecture notes and notes on current medical journals and literature compiled by J. H.
Huddleston while a student at the Medical School of Harvard University, [ca. 18891890].
Primary
contents of the lecture notes concern surgery, clinical surgery, orthopaedic surgery, and the diseases of
children; many lectures were delivered at Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital as
part of clinical training for students. Lecturers include: Edward H. Bradford, Herbert L. Burrell,...
Dates:
circa 1889-1890
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